CompuBob

well since I sold my TII project I found a N/A GXL.. the guy was origionally asking 2k cdn, but I talked him down to 800 bucks!..
It has a straight exhaust but runs nice and quiet, it's been sitting for 2 years, I yanked the plugs, cleaned them off and threw in a new battery and it started right up on 2 year old gas.
it has a few downsides which is why I talked him down so much.

1. it has a SHITTY purple paint job, This will be fixed before I take it out on the streets, even if I have to spray bomb it flat black for a while.
2. the interior parts have been riced up with shitty blue paint
3. Missing radio and cracked radio surround
4. Suspension seems shot
5. 195,000 Origional KM <-- time to premix and hope the enging holds out for the winter
6. I knew the previous owner and I know it has been beat to death.
7. Shifter bushings are shot, while in a gear it seems like you are in neutral and it's hard to find gears, but it's just simple bushings.

but on the upside the engins has good compression and the posi still works from the 2 black circular patches I've left while testing it out. it idled prefectly at around 700, stalled once in a while if you let it sit, I think thats just because of the 2 year old gas it was running..

anyways I'm only framiliar with TII's, I've actoually never driven or looked at a N/A other than a FB..

so do you guy's think this is worth it? if taken care of should the engine last me at least the winter? I'm really just going to use this to get from school and back and around for the winter, I still want to get a TII later on, or depending on how this one holds up I'm well aware what it takes to swap in a TII drivetrain.. that might pay for it's self in a few months just with insurance cost differences between the TII and N/A's